Effects of basking opportunity on birthing asynchrony in a viviparous lizard

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1465-1470

  While, Geoffrey M ^a   Wapstra, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

birth date; birth spread; delayed parturition; Egernia whitii; hatching asynchrony; maternal effect; White's skink

Indexed keywords

IDENTIFICATION METHOD; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VIVIPARITY;

AVES; EGERNIA; EGERNIA WHITII; SQUAMATA; ZOOTOCA VIVIPARA;

EID: 67349180701     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.03.001     Document Type: Article

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